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Marmaduke de Thweng

Male - Bef 1323


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  • Name Marmaduke de Thweng  [1, 2
    Birth of Kilton in Brotton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 26 Feb 1323  [3, 4, 5
    Person ID I9854  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LD
    Last Modified 9 Jan 2018 

    Father Marmaduke de Thweng,   b. of Kilton in Brotton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1282 and 1284 
    Mother Lucy de Brus   d. Aft 29 Mar 1282 
    Marriage Abt 1242  [3, 5, 6
    Family ID F3716  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isabel de Ros,   b. of Ingmanthorpe in Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1309 
    Marriage 1273  [1, 5
    Children 
    +1. Katherine de Thweng   d. Between 20 Apr 1364 and 28 May 1374
    +2. Lucy de Thweng,   b. Abt 1290, Kilton Castle, Cleveland, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1325 (Age ~ 34 years)
    Family ID F2441  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jan 2024 

  • Notes 
    • Summoned to Parliament by writs 22 Feb 1307 to 18 Sep 1322.

      "[P]layed a leading role at the battle of Stirling in 1297, but in 1299 was taken prisoner and ransomed by the Scots. [...] In 1312 he joined Thomas, earl of Lancaster, in the attack upon Piers Gaveston, and in 1321, at the time of Lancaster's great rebellion, his loyalties were the subject of suspicion by the crown." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

      From Wikipedia:

      In 1297 Marmaduke achieved some fame at the Battle of Stirling Bridge by a heroic escape. Over 100 English knights had been trapped, together with several thousand infantry, on the far side of the river, and were being slaughtered by the Scots. Thweng managed to fight his way back across the bridge and he thus became the only knight of all those on the far side of the river to survive the battle. Following the rout, Thweng with William FitzWarin were appointed castellans of Stirling Castle by the English leader John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. The castle was quickly starved into submission, and Thweng and FitzWarin were taken prisoner to Dumbarton Castle.

      At the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, however, after the English defeat, Sir Marmaduke apparently made no attempt to escape. Instead he wandered over the battlefield until he located Robert the Bruce; only then was he prepared to surrender, and only to the victorious King. Robert recognised Sir Marmaduke and released him and Ralph de Monthermer, also captured, both without ransom, but not without first entertaining them at table.

  • Sources 
    1. [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928.

    2. [S991] Early Yorkshire Families ed. Charles Travis Clay and Diana E. Greenway. Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1973.

    3. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    4. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., year only.

    5. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    6. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.